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<p>I don't know about you, but I for one have used Perl as a language to communicate with other human beings, not a computer. Be it simple snippets in emails (<c>s/indead/indeed/</c> , <c>"onething" != "otherthing"</c>), [451868|perlmonk nodes] or [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl%20Poetry|Perl Poetry], all of these are written in Perl for the pure intention of communicating with other people, because I found it funnier, more concise or even just possible to express things in this language than in another. Also, don't forget that languages can take many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language|forms] and while it may be harder to express certain things in one language than another, that will not make the language in question less valid.</p>
<p>So "computer languages" are nothing else than languages which can be understood by humans and also be interpreted by a computer. Yes, they're constructed languages rather than natural ones, but so are Esperanto and Sindarin. You won't deny those are languages either, will you?.</p>
<p>As for your point about the term "computer languages" making us more willing to exploit other people, bah, total humbug. Look to the economists, not the computer scientists for that one.</p>
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